Improvement in devices for shunting cars



H- S. WILLIS. Device for shunting can No. 214,738. Patented April 22", 187.9.

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HENRY S. WILLIS, OF ONONDAGA, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR SHUNTING CARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,738, dated April 2'2, 1879; application filed December 5, 1878.

ing Cars, of which the following is a specifica tion.

The nature of this invention relates. to certain new and useful improvements in the construction ofdevices to be used in shunting railway-cars; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts, all as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which my invention is shown in perspective, A B represent two parallel bars, the overlapping ends of whichare pivoted together by means of the swinging arms a b, the latter of which terminates in a handle or lever, (J, as shown, and by means of which the device is operated.

To the free end of the bar A is rigidly secured an angle plate, D, the corners of one side of which are provided with studs or spurs cl, which engage with the body of a car, while the opposite side of this plate is provided with a slot, 0, through which a key or pin, g, is driven into the car-body, securing that end of the device rigidly to the car.

The free end of the bar B is provided with a fork, E, which is designed to engage with the rail.

In practice the device is secured to the car I as above described, the fork E engaging with the rail. As the lever-handle is depressed the bar A is caused to advance, and with it the car is pushed .ahead. As the lever is pushed back into its original position the bar B is drawn forward, when, by again depressing the lever, the car is moved forward, as before, this operation being repeated until the car is brought to the desired point.

What I claim as my invention is l. A device for shunting cars, consisting of two parallel bars, A B, connected together by pivoted swinging arms a, b, the latter of which terminates in a handle, 0, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a device for shunting cars, substantially as described, the combination of the parallel bars A B, the former being provided at its free end with a device for engaging with the body of a car, and the latter with a device for engagement with the rail, with the pivoted swinging arms a b, and handle 0, when constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as and for the purposes specified.

HENRY S. WILLIS.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, A. BARTHEL. 

